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Dr Gordon Ormerod (Robert Daws)
Gordon Ormerod is one of two senior doctors at the Royal, the other is his wife, Dr Jill Weatherill played by Amy Robbins (whom he married in real life in 2003). Gordon has more than his fair share of personal traumas at St Aidan's. Firstly, he had to contend with his first wife, Caroline, being seriously injured in a road traffic accident and sadly dying at the Royal after a few weeks on a life-support machine. Even his marriage to Jill is traumatic, as just before the ceremony commences, there is large explosion at the old people's home opposite the church. Gordon and Jill abandon their ceremony, as do their guests and go to assist, with Jill still wearing her white wedding dress!
Then, at the end of series four, whilst attending an accident, Gordon's car (a Ford Zephur) is seen veering off the promenade and crashing onto Elsinby's (Scarborough's) sands. Fortunately, he survives and we see him return to work at the beginning of series five with a plaster cast, which means that he has to rely on ambulance driver, Frankie Robinson (Scott Taylor) driving him around whilst he visits his patients. Besides the physical injuries, Gordon has to contend with the psychological trauma of the accident and becomes dependent on the drug, diazepam. Jill confronts Gordon over his addiction and shocks him by announcing to him that she is pregnant with their first child.
Born in Essex in 1959, Robert Daws is a very familiar face on television. He trained at the Royal Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and has a long and distinguished stage and television career. His television credits include Tuppy Glossop in Jeeves and Wooster; Roger Dervish, the pompous cricket captain, in Outside Edge; Sam Mountjoy, the minicab office owner, in Roger, Roger; Piggy Garstone in the House of Elliott, as well as roles in Casualty, Midsomer Murders, London's Burning and Lovejoy to name but a few.
Film credits include Arthur's Dyke, a comedy about three middle-aged men (Daws, Nicholas Farrell and Richard Graham) walking Offa's Dyke path in Wales, along with Janet, played by Pauline Quirke and Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile.
Robert's recent works include his own one-man show, Summoned by Betjeman about the life and work of Sir John Betjeman.